What happens when we flash RISC-V firmware to PineCone BL602 Board... And what's inside the BL602 Boot Image, Partition Table, Device Tree and EFuse Configuration

Flashing Firmware to PineCone BL602

I'm running a Pinebook Pro with Manjaro and I3 window manager. Yesterday, on startup, I logged in and after the desktop displayed, the screen went all white. I waited about a minute and powered off the PBP, waited about 30 seconds, and powered it backup and logged in. No problems.  I shutodown the PBP when I was done and this morning, I ran into the same white screen problem. Again, Shutdown, wait, restart, desktop working. I'm installing updates. I did a quick search to see if this is a known problem lately, but didn't see anything right away.  Any one else have this problem? Any idea what's going on or can point me to a post where this is addressed?

It's 12 minutes passed midnight January 1st 2021 over here, so I'm wishing everyone a happy new year!
The year of the 牛 (cow)!

Hello, i am new here.

I used my Rock64 (4Gb Ram) with Manjaro 19.04,
does anyone have a ready image for Manjaro 20?

Since Manjaro 19.04 is not longer supported...

Thanks for Help.

Hi everyone!

I would like to change the boot animation on Manjaro.

I installed "bootsplash-viewer" and "bootsplash-packer".

I used a script found on GitHub to create a new bootsplash animation.

I manually copied the created file to "/usr/lib/firmware/bootsplash-themes/custom/bootsplash" and I edited my "extlinux.conf" file to point there but it doesn't work.

Is there anything I forgot to do?

The animation works when using "bootsplah-viewer" to see it.

Thanks!

Hi all!

I just received my Pinecil today, and was keen to try it out. However, the tip does not heat up, and before calibration the display showed a very high temperature readout (420+ degrees C) while the iron remained at room temperature.

Enabling "Advanced Options" => "Detailed Idle Screen" reveals that the tip is not detected by the Pinecil. The message "TIP DISCONNECTED" persists, regardless of which tip I insert, and the status of the locking screw.

I have not tried to use the grounding connection as yet, and my power sources tested so far have all been USB-C PD.

This issue persists upon updating to the latest release of the firmware, using the provided firmware flashing documentation.

I believe this may be a hardware issue or user error, hence my post here. Has anyone else experienced a similar issue with their Pinecil?

Selling my like new ANSI Pinebook Pro that I bought earlier this year. Runs Manjaro ARM and comes with charger. It’s in great condition with no issues, I just never used it as much as I thought I would. Selling for $150 plus cost to ship to buyer. Let me know if you have questions.

so I installed command-not-found from the repos, and one of my functions in my default .bashrc calls pacman, so command-not-found suggested I install it from the repos.

I searched Google for any sort of documentation related to Alpine Linux and pacman, but Alpine Linux's documentation is basically non-existent. I was wondering if anyone here had any experience with pacman on Alpine.

is it configured for Alpine's packages? is it just a placeholder for a chroot Arch install, or a fast path to installing Arch within an Alpine install?

I absolutely detest the apk system, and I love pacman. if Alpine were capable of using pacman instead for a regular install I would certainly try that out, but my worry after looking at the APKBUILD is that there's no hint of configuring sources for Alpine.

any input would be appreciated

Looking to install Ubuntu server 20.04 on my 2gb pine64 boards. 

Anyone have some tips on how to get it going?... would really love to use it with these boards. Currently using centos 7 but it has some issues and I in general just like Ubuntu better than centos as I'm more familiar with Ubuntu's workings.

I've attempted to build my own a few times but never had good success..

any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

has anyone experience with pinephone in germany with telefonica ?
telefon, internet, roaming ? for daily use (telefon, browser, email, telegram) ? which distribution works in this case best ?
i would love to buy one to replace my main mobile. i switched this year to manjaro and would classify myself as a beginner.

thank you very much and happy new year !